I had two sons — David Lee, age 8 and
Billy, 16 — and my wife of 20 years — all gone. After being on
Prozac for 21 days, my wife shot and killed both of these two boys.
This testimony from Tucker Moneymaker before the
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hearing into an antidepressant in
1991 was ignored, along with the stories of dozens of other victims
and scientists. A panel of nine psychiatrists, many with
financial ties to pharmaceutical companies, heard the
chilling testimony but refused to sound the alarm that the
antidepressant could cause suicide and violence. Fourteen years
later, on July 1, the victims were vindicated after the FDA warned
that SSRI antidepressants potentially cause suicide not just in
children but also in adults. Last year, an FDA Advisory also
acknowledged the drugs could cause hostility and aggression.
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) today launched a
forum on its website for victims of psychiatric drugs and
misdiagnosis to
report their abuse
and to revisit the 1991 FDA Hearings in a mini-documentary,
The FDA:
From Cover Up to Black Box Warning. Last October, the FDA ordered
a black box label warning that children can become suicidal while
taking the drugs.
Since 1991, over 100 children have committed suicide after being
prescribed antidepressants and more than 25 people have been killed
and 50 wounded by teens' murderous shooting sprees while taking the
drugs. Millions of adults have suffered other side effects including
sexual dysfunction and electric shock-like sensations while withdrawing
from them.
Filmed statements
from psychiatric victims and parents whose
children committed suicide shortly after being prescribed
mind-altering drugs appears as both a public information service and
warning.
William: "It was horrible. I would start
quivering and shaking. I could not control anything ... I had no
feelings ... Someone could have come and said my mother died. I
would not have reacted ... I don't think highly of
psychiatric drugs at all."
Molly: ..."here's a 17-year-old guinea pig,
let's blast her with 90 mgs [of an antidepressant]." So when I
was released I didn't know how to function as a zombie. I had no
personality. None of my underlying issues had been addressed or
resolved so I attempted to kill myself.
CCHR, a psychiatric watchdog established by the
Church of Scientology in 1969, has documented patient testimony
against psychotropic drugs, electroshock, psychosurgery, involuntary
and voluntary commitment and psychiatric rape and fraud.
